SolidWorks

This lesson includes:
- Creating base, boss, and cut features from sketches
- Adding fillets to smooth edges
- Creating a circular pattern
- Adding drawing views
- Adding centerlines, center marks, and dimensions to the drawing

Construction - Using Circular Pattern

Engineering Drawing of Pressure Plate

Lesson 1 - Parts

Spinning Product

Construction of part

Lesson 1 - Parts - Overview

You can begin with the first section or skip to a later section to bypass tasks you already know how to do.

Setting up a new part document
Creating the base feature
Adding a boss feature
Creating a cut feature
Adding fillets
Adding a shell feature
Editing features
Completed Part

Finish part

Lesson 2 - Assemblies

Construction of part

Lesson 2 - Assemblies

An assembly is a combination of two or more parts, also called components, within one SOLIDWORKS document. You position and orient components using mates that form relations between components.

In this lesson, you build a simple assembly based on the part that you created in Lesson 1.

This lesson discusses the following:

Adding parts to an assembly
Moving and rotating components in an assembly
Creating display states in an assembly

Spinning Product

Finished Product

Lesson 3 - Drawing

Objectives:

Lesson 3 - Drawings

Opening a drawing template and editing a sheet format
Inserting standard views of a part model
Adding model and reference annotations
Adding another drawing sheet
Inserting a named view
Printing the drawing

Seven-Piece Puzzle

This cube is made up of 7 parts. I recreated it using metric calipers from a 3d printed cube. That is why they are not all perfect measurement as the ed printers is not perfect. Each part is printed and is with in .01 percent error of each other.

SolidWorks - Fillets - Process

Objective

In this lesson, you learn how to build the sample part used in the Fillet Features tutorial. You can capture the symmetry of a knob in the design intent of the part. You build one half of the sample part in this lesson, then in the Fillet Features lesson, you mirror the model to create the other half. Any changes you make to the original half are reflected in the other half.

The steps include:

Using relations in sketches

Adding draft angles to extruded features

SolidWorks - Fillets - Product

Objective

In this lesson, you learn how to build the sample part used in the Fillet Features tutorial. You can capture the symmetry of a knob in the design intent of the part. You build one half of the sample part in this lesson, then in the Fillet Features lesson, you mirror the model to create the other half. Any changes you make to the original half are reflected in the other half.

The steps include:

Using relations in sketches

Adding draft angles to extruded features

Draft

Varfillet

Asym fillet

Mirror

SolidWorks - Revolve and Sweeps Features- Process

Objective

In this lesson, you create the candlestick shown below. This lesson demonstrates:

Creating a revolve feature

Creating a sweep feature

Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

SolidWorks - Revolve and Sweeps Features- Product

Revolve

Filet

Sweep

Final

Objective

In this lesson, you create the candlestick shown below. This lesson demonstrates:

Creating a revolve feature

Creating a sweep feature

Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

SolidWorks - Pattern Features- Process

Objective

In this lesson, you learn how to create a linear pattern and a circular pattern. A linear pattern is a one- or two-dimensional array of features. A circular pattern is a circular array of features.

The steps include:

Creating an oblong cut

Creating a linear pattern

Creating a circular pattern

Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Revolve

Cut extrude

Linear Pattern

Circular Pattern

SolidWorks - Pattern Features- Product

Objective

In this lesson, you learn how to create a linear pattern and a circular pattern. A linear pattern is a one- or two-dimensional array of features. A circular pattern is a circular array of features.

The steps include:

Creating an oblong cut

Creating a linear pattern

Creating a circular pattern

Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Extrude

Linear Pattern

Cir Pattern

SolidWorks - Loft - Process

Objective

In this lesson, you create this hammer head using loft features.

A loft is a base, boss, or cut created by connecting multiple cross sections, or profiles.

This lesson demonstrates the following:

Creating planes

Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles

Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)

Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Loft

Flex

Planes

SolidWorks - Loft - Product

Objective

In this lesson, you create this hammer head using loft features.

A loft is a base, boss, or cut created by connecting multiple cross sections, or profiles.

This lesson demonstrates the following:

Creating planes

Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles

Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)

Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Loft

Flex

Planes

SolidWorks - Mouse Gestures

Objectives

Start a sketch for a part.

Sketch a rectangle and a circle.

Save the sketch.

Dimension the sketch.

Extrude the sketch.

Change the view of an extruded part

I like having 4 mouse gestures, I tryed to use 8 for the assinment and disliked it. Have those task on the gestures did not help or make it faster for me to complete the object. I have my mouse gestures set up for Redo on the right undo on the left measure on up and start sketch on down

SolidWorks - 3d sketch - Process

Objective

Using SOLIDWORKS, you can create 3D sketches. You use a 3D sketch as a sweep path, as a guide curve for a sweep or loft, as a centerline for a loft, or as one of the key entities in a routing system. A useful application of 3D sketching is designing routing systems.

This lesson introduces you to 3D sketching and describes the following concepts:

Sketching relative to coordinate systems

Dimensioning in 3D space

Mirroring features

3d Sketch

Linear Pattern

SolidWorks - 3d sketch - Product

Objective

Using SOLIDWORKS, you can create 3D sketches. You use a 3D sketch as a sweep path, as a guide curve for a sweep or loft, as a centerline for a loft, or as one of the key entities in a routing system. A useful application of 3D sketching is designing routing systems.

This lesson introduces you to 3D sketching and describes the following concepts:

Sketching relative to coordinate systems

Dimensioning in 3D space

Mirroring features

First 3d sketch

Second 3d sketch

Front view

Final

First sketch

Mirror

Final